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bantling|ˈbæntlɪŋ|
[possibly f. band, swathe + -ling; but considered by Mahn, with greater probability, a corruption of Ger. bänkling bastard f. bank bench, i.e. ‘a child begotten on a bench, and not in the marriage-bed’; cf. bastard.]
A young or small child, a brat. (Often used depreciatively, and formerly as a synonym of bastard.)
1593Drayton Eclog. vii. 102 Lovely Venus..Smiling to see her wanton Bantlings game. 1635Quarles Emblems ii. viii. (1718) 93 See how the dancing bells turn round..To please my bantling! 1756Connoisseur No. 123 (1774) IV. 142 Their base-born bantlings. 1791Wolcott (P. Pindar) Rights Kings Wks. 1812 II. 389 We whip a bantling when it kicks and cries. 1809W. Irving Knickerb. (1861) 48 A tender virgin, accidentally and unaccountably enriched with a bantling. 1831Coleridge Table T. 24 July, Some real new-born bantling.
fig.1679R. W. O. Cromwell's Ghost 1 Vices like these, you know were heretofore The only grateful Bantlings. 1808Byron Let. Becher Wks. (1846) 402/1 The interest you have taken in me and my poetical bantlings. 1864Tennyson Boadicea, Lo their precious Roman bantling, lo the colony Camulodune. |